Civic Tourism: The Poetry and Politics of Place
Title | Civic Tourism: The Poetry and Politics of Place PDF eBook |
Author | Dan Shilling |
Publisher | Civic Tourism |
Total Pages | 66 |
Release | 2007 |
Genre | Cultural property |
ISBN | 092757926X |
Examines the tourism industry in the light of civic values that go beyond economics to the social and environmental impacts of tourism development, exploring ways to develop a responsible tourism ethic.
Urban Tourism and Urban Change
Title | Urban Tourism and Urban Change PDF eBook |
Author | Costas Spirou |
Publisher | Routledge |
Total Pages | 261 |
Release | 2011-01-13 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1136859020 |
Urban Tourism and Urban Change: Cities in a Global Economy provides both a sociological / cultural analysis of change that has taken place in many of the world's cities. This focused treatment of urban tourism examines the implications of these changes for urban management and planning sense, for success and failure in metropolitan change. Uniquely suited for teaching purposes, Costas Spirou integrates numerous case studies of cities to illuminate the significant impact and promise of tourism on urban image and economic development.
A Conservationist Manifesto
Title | A Conservationist Manifesto PDF eBook |
Author | Scott Russell Sanders |
Publisher | Indiana University Press |
Total Pages | 257 |
Release | 2009 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 0253353130 |
Practical, ecological, and philosophical grounds for a conservation ethic
Traditional Ecological Knowledge
Title | Traditional Ecological Knowledge PDF eBook |
Author | Melissa K. Nelson |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 291 |
Release | 2018-10-11 |
Genre | Nature |
ISBN | 1108635628 |
This book examines the importance of Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK) and how it can provide models for a time-tested form of sustainability needed in the world today. The essays, written by a team of scholars from diverse disciplinary backgrounds, explore TEK through compelling cases of environmental sustainability from multiple tribal and geographic locations in North America and beyond. Addressing the philosophical issues concerning indigenous and ecological knowledge production and maintenance, they focus on how environmental values and ethics are applied to the uses of land.Grounded in an understanding of the profound relationship between biological and cultural diversity, this book defines, interrogates, and problematizes, the many definitions of traditional ecological knowledge and sustainability. It includes a holistic and broad disciplinary approach to sustainability, including language, art, and ceremony, as critical ways to maintain healthy human-environment relations.
Legacy
Title | Legacy PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 544 |
Release | 2007 |
Genre | Historic sites |
ISBN |
Why Place Matters
Title | Why Place Matters PDF eBook |
Author | Wilfred McClay |
Publisher | Encounter Books |
Total Pages | 314 |
Release | 2014-02-25 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1594037167 |
Contemporary American society, with its emphasis on mobility and economic progress, all too often loses sight of the importance of a sense of “place” and community. Appreciating place is essential for building the strong local communities that cultivate civic engagement, public leadership, and many of the other goods that contribute to a flourishing human life. Do we, in losing our places, lose the crucial basis for healthy and resilient individual identity, and for the cultivation of public virtues? For one can’t be a citizen without being a citizen of some place in particular; one isn’t a citizen of a motel. And if these dangers are real and present ones, are there ways that intelligent public policy can begin to address them constructively, by means of reasonable and democratic innovations that are likely to attract wide public support? Why Place Matters takes these concerns seriously, and its contributors seek to discover how, given the American people as they are, and American economic and social life as it now exists—and not as those things can be imagined to be in some utopian scheme—we can find means of fostering a richer and more sustaining way of life. The book is an anthology of essays exploring the contemporary problems of place and placelessness in American society. The book includes contributions from distinguished scholars and writers such as poet Dana Gioia (former chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts), geographer Yi-Fu Tuan, urbanist Witold Rybczynski, architect Philip Bess, essayists Christine Rosen and Ari Schulman, philosopher Roger Scruton, transportation planner Gary Toth, and historians Russell Jacoby and Joseph Amato.
Tourism and Politics
Title | Tourism and Politics PDF eBook |
Author | Colin Michael Hall |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 238 |
Release | 1994 |
Genre | Tourism |
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